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Friday, February 28, 2014

I am jumping up and down that this week is almost over! I'm feeling better, our new dishwasher is coming in tomorrow (hand-washing dishes all week for a family of five is the pits), we're starting spring break after today, and the card I just made is perfect for the new CAS-ual Fridays challenge.

I'm loving the new origami stamp set by Mama Elephant. It crept up on me. I didn't know how much I would love it at first glance, but there is so much you can do with it! Did you happen to catch Emily's origami Yoda? so clever. I water-colored my pooch in shades of grey for a softer look.

I heat-embossed the dog image and let the paint bleed around quite a bit before cutting it out. The background panel was also watercolored. Swipes of blue and green were painted very quickly, and then speckled with more grey paint.

I layered the hearts from the confetti dies and stuck them onto a clothespin. I love the look of it.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

I found a bit of free time this week, and my Avery Elle stamps were still sitting on my desk, so I decided to create another card for their birthday challenge.

Put a birthday candle at the top of a stack of macarons, and you've got yourself a party:

I started out with a piece of white cardstock, and stamped the macarons (masking as I went down the tower.) I then masked all four of them, and stamped the flourish-y "celebrate" over the entire panel.

The candle was hand-drawn... mostly because I couldn't be bothered to get up and look through all of my stamps just to find a single candle image in the right size. ha.

Monday, February 24, 2014

I know this post is gonna seem a little out of season, but it was perfectly timed when we celebrated my niece's 1st birthday a day after Valentine's.

My sister and I planned and baked a very tiny celebration for the tiniest (and cutest) one-year-old. Seriously, she weighs in at only 15 pounds and is the daintiest little lady.

I knew we needed a solid prop or background to ground our party table. This one cost me 1$, and took up under 2 hours of my time. I cut a heart-shape out of a large cardboard box we had in our garage (the backside shows off the Sharp tv we recently bought for our basement) and I covered it in layers of fringed crepe paper. You know the roll of streamers you can buy for 1$? I went to town on the roll with my Martha Stewart fringe scissors and then taped down layers, starting at the bottom, and working my way to the top. I lopped off the bottom of the heart so that it would stand up straight on the dessert table.

The easiest trifle-topping banner, thanks to my silhouette cutter.

mmmm.... trifle....

a chocolate mold and red candy melts made for very cute cupcake toppers.

I also used the same red chocolate hearts on my batch of sugar cookies, and Melissa piped red hearts onto her white cake pops. Try as we might, perfectly round cake pops are the impossible dream... haha.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

I gave my monocle-d bunny a glassy eye, with the help of glossy accents. The panel was grounded using the femme frames - I cut both the rectangle and larger scallop frame in one pass, instead of layering the white mat over-top.

The bunny looks like a cheeky fellow, and the playfulness of the sketch letters font adds to his mischievousness.

I hope you like it! Check out the Mama Elephant blog for more sketchy letters inspiration!

Welcome back to another day of lawn fawn's inspiration week. Today, we are showing off "wish you were here," a set I wasn't sure I'd get much use out of.... with the hugs american map in there and all... but it turns out I love it!

There are so many different ways to use this set. I did a love-themed card with it *here.*

And now, for the bébé:

I combined wish you were here with #awesome to create a baby card with an instagram-vibe. All of those hashtags, hee hee.

I stamped the globe first, then heat-embossed the sentiment (the "hello" and "world" were nabbed from separate sets) before stamping the chevrons in the background. I did some pink inking over the entire panel, to simulate an instagram filter.

I hope you like it! Visit the lawn fawn blog for more wish you were here inspiration.

I paper-pieced the bunnies, and have them sitting atop the banner from "true friend." I love the sentiment, also taken from that set. Using a ruler and a black pen, I gave the banner an outline. I think it's a fun way to get a different look out of a solid stamp.

The confetti. oh my, the paper confetti. I love the new dies. You could leave them flat and they're amazing, but I played with them a bit to get extra dimension.

I pieced together the sentiment from some of the newer lawn fawn sets (#awesome and let's roll) and stamped the rainbow from starry backdrops. The unloved unicorn from critters ever after gets a facelift when paired with these newer stamps.

Did you notice the journaling card die? Some careful die-cutting and I was able to create a longer panel to fit my images better.

Hope you like it! Now, play along - you could win a prize from lawn fawn:

I propped the bunny onto the shelf from nursery deco, and added the sentiment underneath.

The stripes on the card base were created using a ruler and black copic marker. Nothing could be easier. It provides a graphic backdrop to the gold stars.

I used the falling hearts stencil, from Simon Says Stamp, and gold embossing paste. I masked the bunny before applying the paste so that a few hearts look seamlessly tucked behind him.

The fun part: there's a giveaway! To celebrate the new release, Mama Elephant is giving away one of each of the new stamps sets. The winners will be chosen at random from among the stampeding blogs. The winners will be announced on the blog on the last stamp highlight day. You have up to 3 chance to qualify for a win! Just leave a separate comment for each:

I like matchy-matchy gift sets, so I found a silhouette file for a camper candy box and put it together with a camper card.

I stamped out the trees from happy trails to fill the card base, shading each one ever-so-slightly. The main panel (the journaling card die) features the speech bubble die in 2 ways: as a speech bubble at the top, and as the hill-y bottom.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Happy Sunday! One thing I love about crafting and blogging is the friends I've picked up along the way. My buddy and fellow canuck, Meredith, makes the most gorgeous vintage cards, with ribbons and layers that I can only dream of re-creating.

To celebrate a new, love-themed kit in her shop, she's asked a few bloggers to create cards using its items.

I'm not a ribbon kind-of-gal, but I did my best:

I love the time card included in the kit! My first instinct was to have a really cheesy "i'd love to spend all my time with you" sentiment, but I opted for something a little more classy. hee.

The sequins included in my kit are shades of pink, and perfect for creating a little shaker. I added teeny-tiny hearts in hot pink and white to fill in the area.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

I love sushi. Not the super fishy kinds (so I'm a wimpy sushi eater) but I dream about eating sushi. I just decided my hubs and I are doing sushi for valentine's day. He'll thank me when I present him with this card.

True story: every time we order sushi, the kids get their favorite general tao chicken. Then, they torment their daddy with a game they like to call "we dare you to eat this much wasabi." I've never seen a grown man sweat so much, sitting down. ha.

All of the images are lawn fawn: the almost-released "let's roll" and "milo's abcs."